I decided to publish my write-ups from my comprehensive exam reading fields. I am publishing them *as is.* Thus they represent my thoughts as a new PhD student. They were written between September 2011 and July 2012. The full collection is accessible here. In Search of the Golden West: The Tourist in Western America Earl Pomeroy …
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I decided to publish my write-ups from my comprehensive exam reading fields. I am publishing them *as is.* Thus they represent my thoughts as a new PhD student. They were written between September 2011 and July 2012. The full collection is accessible here. “Frontierism, Metropolitanism, and Canadian History” J.M. Careless Published one year before Earl Pomeroy’s “Toward …
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This is the 127th post in my series that explores the most-used words in the top stories shared among Environmental Historians and Environmental Humanities scholars on Twitter each week. Here are the top articles among environmental historians and humanities scholars this past week (July 29, 2019 – August 4, 2019): Scientists propose changing the rules …
I decided to publish my write-ups from my comprehensive exam reading fields. I am publishing them *as is.* Thus they represent my thoughts as a new PhD student. They were written between September 2011 and July 2012. The full collection is accessible here. “Toward a Reorientation of Western History: Continuity and Environment” Earl Pomeroy Earl Pomeroy, …
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I decided to publish my write-ups from my comprehensive exam reading fields. I am publishing them *as is.* Thus they represent my thoughts as a new PhD student. They were written between September 2011 and July 2012. The full collection is accessible here. The West as America: Reinterpreting Images of the Frontier, 1820-1920 Edited by William …
This is the 123rd post in my series that explores the most-used words in the top stories shared among Environmental Historians and Environmental Humanities scholars on Twitter each week. Here are the top articles among environmental historians and humanities scholars this past week (July 1, 2019 – July 7, 2019): So seen. So very very …
I decided to publish my write-ups from my comprehensive exam reading fields. I am publishing them *as is.* Thus they represent my thoughts as a new PhD student. They were written between September 2011 and July 2012. The full collection is accessible here. An American Vision: Far Western Landscape and National Culture, 1820-1920 Anne Farrar Hyde …
This is the 120th post in my series that explores the most-used words in the top stories shared among Environmental Historians and Environmental Humanities scholars on Twitter each week. Here are the top articles among environmental historians and humanities scholars this past week (June 10, 2019 – June 16, 2019): #Hypocrite who claims that environmental …
This is the 119th post in my series that explores the most-used words in the top stories shared among Environmental Historians and Environmental Humanities scholars on Twitter each week. Here are the top articles among environmental historians and humanities scholars this past week (June 3, 2019 – June 9, 2019): 🚨LIMITED OFFER🚨 From now until …
This post originally appeared on Unwritten Histories as part of CHA Reads 2019. The nearly iridescent blue of the flax flower jumps off the cover of Joshua Macfadyen’s Flax Americana: A History of the Fibre and Oil That Covered a Continent immediately challenging the reader’s perception of this under-appreciated fibre crop. At the same time as one’s …
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